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The 'Other' Working Class: An Ethnography of a Racialised Surplus Population among Roma in the Czech Republic

“其他”工人阶级：捷克共和国罗姆人种族化剩余人口的民族志

基本信息

批准号：
ES/X006646/1
负责人：
Barbora Cernusakova
金额：
$ 12.51万
依托单位：
Goldsmiths University of London
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Fellowship
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2022 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FX006646%2F1
关键词：
Other Working Class Ethnography Racialised

项目摘要

My research has the potential to transform the theory and policy understanding of the reality of Roma workers in post-socialist Europe. In particular, it aims to shift the paradigm away from the category of unemployment of racialised Roma workers towards underemployment. I have demonstrated the originality and significance of my research by publishing three peer-review academic journal articles during my PhD: in Race & Class ("Stigma and segregation: containing the Roma of Údol", 2020; "'Roma: The Invisible Workforce of Ostrava", 2017) and in the Journal of Law and Political Economy ("Roma Workers under Czech Racial Capitalism", 2021). The Fellowship would enable me to extend and develop my publication profile with a sole-authored academic monograph and two or more public-facing thought pieces.The proposed monograph, building on my PhD dissertation, will contribute to the leading-edge of academic theory on surplus population, racialisation, and employment. It will bring this to the post-socialist context, through an ethnographic study of the lived experiences and perspective of racialised Roma workers, a category that has been so far under-studied and under-theorised in East-Central Europe and beyond. Responding to developments in the theory of "relative surplus population" in the 21st century, in particular by Benanav (2020), Endnotes (2010, 2015) and Farris (2019), I will disrupt conventional understandings of categories of "employment" and "unemployment", and illustrate the particular way in which racial stereotypes and racialising social and economic policies confine Roma workers to low paid, precarious jobs, stigmatised neighbourhoods, and dependence on debt. My work also adds a critical layer of analysis to studies of post-socialism that are mostly focused on white working-class nationalism and workers' susceptibility to racism (Kalb, 2021; Szombati, 2018). The originality of my intervention is also in its form: I bring an ethnographic method and findings to an otherwise largely theoretical debate on surplus population. I use these empirical data analytically to demonstrate how partial deindustrialisation, post-socialist weakening of labour protections, and capital's fluctuating demand for labour have turned Roma workers into a racialised surplus population, a structural condition integral to their governance. Importantly, I also provide rare insights into the under-researched and hard to access sphere of household debt, and use these insights to build theory. The primary output from the Fellowship will be a monograph, Roma: The Invisible Workers of Post-socialism, with a leading university press. My target press is Duke University Press (Theory in Forms series), which has a record of publishing ethnographies of post-socialism. To disseminate my findings to a wider audience (including policy makers and practitioners in the field of human rights and racial justice), and to promote the monograph, the Fellowship will involve two additional activities: two thought pieces co-authored with my mentor, Sara Farris, which will target the London Review of Books (Short Cuts), NLR's Sidecar, The Conversation, and Eurozine; and a film project entitled Roma: The Invisible Working Class in collaboration with a video artist, Tomás Rafa, and my mentor, Ben Rogaly. The film will tell the story of the everyday reality of underemployed Roma workers. It will involve limited further research in Ostrava, use the existing material that I gathered during the fieldwork, and archive footage of Tomás Rafa who, using the methods of cinéma vérité, has been documenting anti-Roma racism in the Central European region since 2009. The purpose of the film project will be to communicate the main findings of my PhD in an accessible format, which could be used academically and in Roma rights advocacy (see Beneficiaries below).

我的研究有可能改变对后社会主义欧洲罗姆工人现实的理论和政策理解。特别是，它旨在将模式从种族化的罗姆工人失业类别转向就业不足类别。我通过在我的博士学位期间发表三篇同行评审学术期刊文章来证明我的研究的原创性和重要性：在种族与阶级（“耻辱和隔离：包含罗姆人的罗姆人”，2020年;“罗姆人：奥斯特拉瓦的隐形劳动力”，2017年）和法律与政治经济学杂志（“捷克种族资本主义下的罗姆工人”，2021年）。该奖学金将使我能够扩展和发展我的出版形象与独家撰写的学术专著和两个或两个以上的面向公众的思想作品。拟议的专著，建立在我的博士论文，将有助于学术理论的前沿过剩人口，种族化，和就业。它将把这一点带到后社会主义背景下，通过种族化的罗姆工人的生活经验和观点的民族志研究，这是迄今为止在中东欧及其他地区研究不足和理论化不足的一个类别。回应世纪“相对过剩人口”理论的发展，特别是贝纳纳夫（2020），尾注（2010，2015）和法里斯（2019），我将打破对“就业”和“失业”类别的传统理解，并说明种族陈规定型观念和种族化的社会和经济政策如何将罗姆工人限制在低收入、不稳定的工作、被污名化的社区，依赖债务。我的工作还为后社会主义的研究增加了一个关键的分析层，这些研究主要集中在白色工人阶级的民族主义和工人对种族主义的敏感性（Kalb，2021; Szombati，2018）。我的干预的独创性也体现在它的形式上：我把人种志的方法和发现带到了一场关于过剩人口的理论辩论中。我用这些经验数据分析，以证明部分去工业化，后社会主义削弱劳动力保护，资本的劳动力需求波动已成为一个种族化的过剩人口，罗姆工人，其治理的结构性条件。重要的是，我还提供了对家庭债务研究不足和难以进入的领域的罕见见解，并利用这些见解来建立理论。研究金的主要产出将是一本专著《罗姆人：后社会主义的隐形工人》，由一家主要大学出版社出版。我的目标出版社是杜克大学出版社（Theory in Forms series），它有出版后社会主义民族志的记录。把我的发现传播给更多的人（包括人权和种族正义领域的决策者和实践者），并为宣传这本专著，该研究金将涉及两项额外活动：与我的导师萨拉·法里斯（Sara Farris）共同撰写的两篇思想文章，将针对《伦敦书评》（London Review of Books）（Short Cuts），NLR的Sidecar，The Conversation和Eurozine;以及与视频艺术家Tomás Rafa和我的导师Ben Rogaly合作的名为Roma：The Invisible Working Class的电影项目。这部电影将讲述就业不足的罗姆工人的日常现实。它将涉及在奥斯特拉瓦进行有限的进一步研究，使用我在实地工作期间收集的现有材料，以及托马斯·拉法的档案录像，他使用真实电影的方法，自2009年以来一直在记录中欧地区反罗姆人的种族主义。该电影项目的目的是以无障碍的形式传播我的博士学位的主要研究结果，可用于学术和罗姆人权利宣传（见下文受益者）。